Cork Institute of Technology by Marc O Riain &amp; Neil Tobin

Marc O Riain &amp; Neil Tobin, the creator of the highlighted project Award Winning Architecture Factory Cork Institute of Technology demonstrates, The Architecture Factory is a third level architectural education, learning and research space situated in a disused split-level warehouse in Cork, Ireland. The interior architectural intervention adapts used shipping containers into lecturer offices dividing the ground floor space into 7 open plan studios. These are divided from a new mezzanine structure by a wide boulevard which functions as a live lab, exhibition and making space. The mezzanine cantilevers over this space creating online learning facilities above seminar rooms, storage, photo labs and studios bookending the enclosures..